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Contains 28 Collections and/or Records:
Flexner, Simon (1863-1946), letters received [copies only], 1903-1928, undated
File — Container: 8, Folder: 4
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1903-1928, undated
Garrison, Fielding Hudson (1870-1935), letters received [copies only]. Anecdotes about Mitchell's relationship with John Shaw Billings, including how they met and how Mitchell led an unsuccessful campaign to get Billings appointed as surgeon general, 1912-1913
File — Container: 8, Folder: 5
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1912-1913
Gould, George Milbry (1848-1922), letters received [copies only]. Mitchell comments on Gould's work and discusses the concept of the "literary physician", 1896-1899, undated
File — Container: 8, Folder: 6
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1896-1899, undated
Jackson, John Hughlings (1835-1911), letters sent. Includes responses to Mitchell's requests for advice on neurological cases., 1872-1904
File — Container: 8, Folder: 7
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1872-1904
Keen, William Williams (b.1837), Letters received [copies only]. Mitchell discusses the Philadelphia medical community, the end of the Civil War, activities at the College of Physicians, and the anti-vivisectionists, 1865-1912, undated
File — Container: 8, Folder: 8
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1865-1912, undated
Osler, Sir William (1849-1919), letters sent. Osler discusses his son, the Dublin bicentenary, his involvement with the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and his plans to lecture at Yale and the College of Physicians, 1905, 1912
File — Container: 8, Folder: 9
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1905, 1912
Paget, Sir James (1814-1899), letters sent. Paget discusses Mitchell's work, describes his own neurological research, reports on the congress of the British Medical Association, and introduces Mitchell to Frank Holl, who later painted Mitchell's portrait. Includes chronological index of letters, 1865-1894
File — Container: 8, Folder: 10
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1865-1894
Playfair, William Smoult (1836-1903), letters sent. Includes description of two cases of hysterical women and how they were treated according the recommendations in Mitchell's Fat and Blood (1877), 1880, undated
File — Container: 8, Folder: 11
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1880, undated
Power, Sir D'Arcy (1855-1941), letters sent [copies only]. Power discusses William Harvey, 1910-1912
File — Container: 8, Folder: 12
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1910-1912
Ross, Sir Ronald (1857-1932), correspondence. Includes discussions about poetry, especially Ross's poem "In Exile", and the concept of the physician as poet, 1907-1928
File — Container: 8, Folder: 13
Identifier: Series 4_2
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
1907-1928
